Meeker senior Victor Villalpando winds up for a pitch during a game in Denver earlier in the season.
Meeker Sports
Lady Cowboys celebrate season
Tuesday, March 22, the Lady Cowboys celebrated a spectacular ending to a tumultuous season. The senior parents hosted a banquet for the team, coaches and their families.
Wrestlers finish second at regionals
Meeker middle school wrestlers traveled to Mesa State College last weekend to participate in the Colorado middle school regional wrestling tournament. Thirty-two middle schools from the western slope participated in the tournament. The top eight in each weight qualified for the state tournament.
Scherbarth earns bronze at hoop shoot
Chris Scherbarth, 9, represented Colorado in the Region 8 Elks Hoop Shoot March 12 in Denver.
LeBlanc earns All-American honors for third time
Former Meeker High School graduate Joe LeBlanc earned All-American honors with a sixth place finish in the 184-pound bracket at the NCAA Division I National Championships, held last week in Philadelphia, Penn.
Shelton wins 7th title
T.J. Shelton, a seventh-grader at Barone Middle School won his seventh national title, since last November, in Denver last weekend, winning the 122-pound bracket of the Rocky Mountain Nationals.
Track teams open season in Delta
More than 40 boys and girls from Meeker High School are on the track team this year and most of them competed in Delta last Saturday to open the season.
Basketball banquet honors MHS seniors
The MHS boys’ basketball team officially concluded their 2010-2011 season with the annual parent-hosted banquet. Approximately 60 people attended the function that annually honors outgoing senior players.
Junior National hopefuls
Four Rio Blanco County basketball players played in the prestigious USA Junior Nationals All-State High School Basketball Competition last weekend in Denver.
BMS wrestlers finish second
Led by team captains Jake Phelan and Tristin Pelloni, Meeker wrestlers finished second out of 13 teams at the East Grand Middle School Tournament.
Wrestlers…
Four local wrestlers, including former Meeker student Cody Pfau, J.R. Crawford, Lucas Heinle and Taran Smedley competed in a freshman/sophomore tournament recently held in Pueblo.
3rd place finishes at Hayden, Soroco
MEEKER I Meeker’s Barone Middle School finished third at the annual Northwest Invitational Wresting tournament in Hayden March 5.
